[ox] Re: [pox] Re: License for a Wiki
- From: Hans-Gert Gräbe <graebe informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:44:47 +0200
I send this also to the main list, since I think it is not only
pox-relevant.
Thomas U. Grüttmüller wrote:
If the pages in question would have been licensed under the CC-BY license, you
would have cancelled your granted rights as well. Here are the relevant
excerpts from CC-BY 2.0:
| You must keep intact all notices that refer to this License and to the
| disclaimer of warranties.
This can be done as easily as putting a link to
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 (best with the CC img as
proposed on creativecommons.org) in each of the page footers.
| This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically
| upon any breach by You of the terms of this License.
I think this can only be interpreted in such a way that the license
automatically renews if the license breaching action is healed (e.g. if
Stefan puts a disclaimer in the footer of each Wiki page). I.e., _if_ we
agree to put all Wiki-4-material under GFDL and have such an information
in the footer, _you_ have no legal way to forbid us to use the material
that you released earlier under the GFDL. That's the main point as I
understood GFDL so far.
Such footer declarations could even be given on a per page basis. Hence
I see no problem to import Wiki-2 content if each Wiki page has an
(immutable) footer disclaimer that all material on that page is GFDL'ed.
On the other hand, after all discussions I would prefer not to declare
GFDL as the default Wiki-4 license but CC-BY.
ShareAlike for code vs. texts: I think the main difference here is that
code has an attribute 'running' and text has not.
HGG
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